Title:The Parameters of Party Systems
Author(s):BARDI, Luciano; MAIR, PeterDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite the scepticism that increasingly surrounds their role and standing in contemporary democracies, scholarly interest in political parties continues unabated. But this interest is also proving uneven, with relatively ...
Title:Parental divorce and offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom?
Author(s):EROLA, Jani; HARKONEN, Juho; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. We use register-based event-history data from Finland to ...
Title:Parliamentary Informatics Projects: Who are their users and what is their impact?
Author(s):OSTLING, AlinaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The past decade has brought a boom of online initiatives that monitor performance of parliaments – a practice commonly referred to as ‘parliamentary informatics’. A recent survey identified 191 organisations monitoring ...
Title:Participacio political, movimients de les dones o drets de les dones al sud d’Europa
Author(s):DELLA PORTA, DonatellaDate:2009Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The chapter looks at the gender dimension in research on political participation, both conventional and unconventional ones. It then addresses the women’s movement as a specific form of political participation, analyzing ...
Title:Participation, Equality of Opportunity and Returns to Tertiary Education in Contemporary Europe
Author(s):BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BALLARINO, GabrieleDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:AlmaLaurea Working PaperAbstract:The aim of the paper is to investigate the consequences of higher educational expansion on two goals of the educational system, that of promoting equity of educational opportunities and that of providing credentials that ...
Title:Participatory budgeting in Europe: potentials and challenges
Author(s):SINTOMER, Yves; HERZBERG, Carsten; RÖCKE, AnjaDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The 'transfer' of participatory budgeting from Brazil to Europe has been a highly differentiated process. In Porto Alegre, this innovative methodology enabled democratization and social justice to be articulated. In Europe, ...